The Human City Agenda

The Human City Institute seeks to define, explore, research and measure the nature and extent of exclusion, disadvantage and inequality amongst ethnic, faith and class groups, promoting human yet practical and realistic solutions to urban problems that help to build better futures for our communities, towns and cities.

How We Will Achieve It

	Undertaking research into human city issues including housing, health, planning, infrastructure, community development and empowerment.
	Charting the geography and concentration of economic and social exclusion relating to ethnic, faith and class groups.
	Exploring how urban social investment, enterprise and innovation approaches can alleviate poverty and disadvantage and promote human communities.
	Chronicling human city projects through longitudinal and case studies to gauge how more human settlements can be developed.
	Exploring ‘sustainability’, including the built and living environments, community well-being and individual happiness.
	Disseminating research findings widely and promoting recommendations that advance human solutions to urban problems.

Guiding Principles

	An independent and balanced view based on strong evidence.
	A partnership approach that incorporates the views of others, especially the disadvantaged.
	A research focus on the most socially excluded groups and communities.
	A quest for practical solutions to the problems of today’s urban exclusion, poverty and inequality.
	An eye on future research and policy horizons.